Notes

Wilson + full supporting cast in a punk rock special - The Racehorse, Northampton NN1 - Monday 3rd June 2002.

📝 Pat Says

Thought folks might enjoy a brief round-up of the various kinds of pop
entertainment available to the lucky British punter on the 50th anniversary
of our sovereign's accession to the throne.

First off, Wilson Headstone spills his guts on the Racehorse punk rock
all-dayer:

The Great Jane Goes-Shopping having set out to recreate the Spirit of '77
with a punk rock knees-up, the Jubilee was well and truly stuffed in
Northampton NN1. The sun shone and we enjoyed
looted champagne and a great deal of herb. There was a Union Jack with a
dirty word on
it and a big bloke with a load of punk records and a smoke machine, whose
entire family were through the doors on the stroke of three o'clock. P-Hex
graced us with Tarantino Funk and a truly, authentically incompetent God
Save The Queen; some
band with inflammable dreadlocks and jungle elephants made a punky ska sort
of row; UK Waste
are just unbelievable altogether - what are they playing at, eh? What's it
all about? - Screwface did Full Metal Jackoff by the Dead Kennedys and
Wilson
did Police and Thieves.

After the raffle we played God's Green Earth and
told entire swathes of British society to go and feck themselfs with a stick
at night, entirely careless of the possible consequences. People were
weeping in the aisles. Several floppy-haired types from villages were
trapped in the alley where Peter Wyngarde was arrested for cottaging and
triumphantly torched by the inflamed republican mob. A nice family day out
alltogether, concluding
in a blaze of Raki, reggae and barely suppressed ultraviolence at
Shakespeare Villas.
Marvellous!

Max Eider writes from our capital city, London:

"Glad to see you celebrated the Jubilee with respect, Pat. Wish I'd been
there. Tamaki and I watched the bash on TV - I thought Tamaki was going to
do herself an injury laughing. Nice touch failing to turn up Rod Stewart's
mike for
his big moment during the final gross-out version of 'All you need is love'.
Oh, wow, and of course there was Queen (QUEEN, geddit?) without the singer
(or the bass player, come to that - did he die too?). And Brian May played
God Save the Queen on the roof. Really, if you'd set out to take the piss,
you couldn't have done a better job. Who said it was the Americans who
didn't have a sense of irony?"